New Mobo and swapping hard-drives - Issues?
Hiya List, I've got a Suse 9.3/9.2 dual boot going on. I'll be swapping 2 hard-drives into an entirely new system rsn. The hardware configuration is totally different from the current one. Roughly, the current hardware config (relative to what will be changed) is: 700 Mhz Pentium III (Coppermine) NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 YMF 744B (Yamaha DS-XG Audio) NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 New hardware: Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.0 GHz (800 FSB) 1024K Geforce FX5200 128Mb DDR 8x AGP dual head w/tv out AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard) 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard) Should I be aware of any 'gotchas' ahead of time? Will I be spending a late night or two tweaking things? Any advance help/info is appreciated. TIA Ken
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 1:57 pm, columbo wrote:
Hiya List,
I've got a Suse 9.3/9.2 dual boot going on. I'll be swapping 2 hard-drives into an entirely new system rsn. The hardware configuration is totally different from the current one. Roughly, the current hardware config (relative to what will be changed) is:
700 Mhz Pentium III (Coppermine) NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 YMF 744B (Yamaha DS-XG Audio) NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
New hardware:
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.0 GHz (800 FSB) 1024K Geforce FX5200 128Mb DDR 8x AGP dual head w/tv out AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard) 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard)
Should I be aware of any 'gotchas' ahead of time? Will I be spending a late night or two tweaking things? Any advance help/info is appreciated.
TIA
Ken
You most likely will have a few challenges but if you keep the hard drives on the same IDE config you should be alright. That is, if you have /dev/hda and /dev/hdc in the old system then put them on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc respectively in the new one and it should boot. Familiar with editing /etc/fstab and running the rescue CD/DVD? If you use KDE and SuSEplugger is running it should ask you to configure all the new hardware it finds. Before powering off the old system make sure SuSEplugger has at least the "Inform me about new hardware" and the "Start automatically on next login" boxes checked. The Nvidia drivers/cards you will have to update the normal way as if you updated the kernel. Do you have a spare system that you can use to get online to ask for help? If not, can you run each machine off one hard drive; will the old one boot with /dev/hdc and can you use /dev/hda to boot the new system? Disaster planning and all... Best of luck, sounds fun! Stan
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 16:34, Stan Glasoe wrote:
You most likely will have a few challenges but if you keep the hard drives on the same IDE config you should be alright. That is, if you have /dev/hda and /dev/hdc in the old system then put them on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc respectively in the new one and it should boot.
Yep. I'll be following that general format.
Familiar with editing /etc/fstab and running the rescue CD/DVD? If
Yes. Very familiar. And the trusty rescue DVD will not be far off.
you use KDE and SuSEplugger is running it should ask you to configure all the new hardware it finds. Before powering off the old system make sure SuSEplugger has at least the "Inform me about new hardware" and the "Start automatically on next login" boxes checked.
Yes, I mainly use KDE and, as a rule, those options are always ticked.
The Nvidia drivers/cards you will have to update the normal way as if you updated the kernel.
Got it.
Do you have a spare system that you can use to get online to ask for help? If not, can you run each machine off one hard drive; will the old one boot with /dev/hdc and can you use /dev/hda to boot the new system? Disaster planning and all...
No, I lack a spare system. I will attempt to determine if I can boot separately off of each drive, though. That's a very solid idea.
Best of luck, sounds fun! Stan
Thank you very much for your response. And it will be a lot of fun. It's not too often I get to upgrade my hardware wholesale like this. Regards, Ken
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 6:22 pm, columbo wrote:
Thank you very much for your response. And it will be a lot of fun. It's not too often I get to upgrade my hardware wholesale like this.
Regards,
Ken
Don't forget the restores... they need decent backups to succeed when they are needed. Stan
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 2:57 pm, columbo wrote:
Hiya List,
I've got a Suse 9.3/9.2 dual boot going on. I'll be swapping 2 hard-drives into an entirely new system rsn. The hardware configuration is totally different from the current one. Roughly, the current hardware config (relative to what will be changed) is:
700 Mhz Pentium III (Coppermine) NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 YMF 744B (Yamaha DS-XG Audio) NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
New hardware:
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.0 GHz (800 FSB) 1024K Geforce FX5200 128Mb DDR 8x AGP dual head w/tv out AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard) 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard)
Should I be aware of any 'gotchas' ahead of time? Will I be spending a late night or two tweaking things? Any advance help/info is appreciated.
OFTEN there are controller differences between MOBs. Most often I make backups of ALL data I must have/need/want, then swap MOBs. Then, reformat all partitions and reload data. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:13, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 2:57 pm, columbo wrote:
Hiya List,
I've got a Suse 9.3/9.2 dual boot going on. I'll be swapping 2 hard-drives into an entirely new system rsn. The hardware configuration is totally different from the current one.
OFTEN there are controller differences between MOBs. Most often I make backups of ALL data I must have/need/want, then swap MOBs. Then, reformat all partitions and reload data.
Fred
Guys, Thank you very much for your advice. Everything went fairly well. The only major issue was that I had to reinstall the driver (7167) for NVidia and manually select the FX 5200 option from YAST otherwise the computer would freeze up shortly after logging into an X display. There are a number of other little tweaks that need to be addressed but I figure I'll jump into the archives and see what is in there to solve them. One thing that I discovered is that there are just way too many options in the BIOS these days! Now I have to crack open Google to research temp sensors, fan speeds and SATA! It just never ends, does it? :) Regards. Ken
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